Pomeroy Pioneer Portraits

Ten Years Ago

January 29, 2014

Pomeroy Senior Center received a $2,500 grant from Puget Sound Energy Foundation to assist with the center's nutrition program. Betty Capwell of the center said the money will be used to help fund the program's home-delivered meals and meals served at the Senior Center site. These programs are "very important to a vulnerable group of people," she said, not only for their nutritional component, but also the benefit of social interaction among participants.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

January 27, 1999

For the first time, mentally challenged residents of Garfield County won't have to go to Lewiston to participate in Special Olympics activities. Debbie Bishop, who lives out in the county with her husband Ed, has volunteered as the county's Special Olympics program director. She began as a volunteer with the Special Olympics cross country skiing program in Lewiston seven years ago, when the Bishops' daughter Rachel began skiing at age 13.

Fifty Years Ago

January 31, 1974

New district conservationist Boyd (Buz) Houtz, is scheduled to be on the job next Monday, Feb. 4. Houtz, a 1950 graduate of Washington State College, has been with Soil Conservation Service for about 16 years. He has worked in Pierce, Spokane, Grays Harbor and Whitman counties. Houtz is married and his wife is a beautician. They have six children, including one in the Marines, one married and four in college.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

January 27, 1949

Lewis J. Whitmore, 42, and Harley Wynne Stallcop, 38, prominent Garfield County farmers, met instant death at approximately 6:15 p.m. Tuesday night, when Whitmore, pilot and owner of a blue-streaked four-passenger Stinson Voyager attempted to set the ship down on the emergency air field at Riparia CAA tower beacon No. 27, some three miles north of Delaney station on the Dayton-Pomeroy highway. Lewis Whitmore was considered by local pilots as well as Lewiston, Idaho, aviators as one of the best pilots in this district. Wynne Stallcop was also a pilot. Although he gave up flying, Wynne remained an active air enthusiast and passenger in planes.

One Hundred Years Ago

January 26, 1924

A bounty of 25 cents for every old rat and 10 cents for every young rat caught in Garfield County during the month of February will be paid by the Wenaha Game Association. The rats, after being caught, are to be taken to the sheriff's office in the courthouse where the deputy sheriff, James Patterson, will give the captor a requisition for the amount due him. This will be paid on presentation to F.F. Strain, secretary of the association.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

January 28, 1899

It appears that the timber land operator Jones of Lewiston, or Wood of Yakima-as you please-has wound up his checkered and meteoric career in this part of the country. Seeing that his game was up and that officers of the law were hot on his track, Jones suddenly disappeared from Lewiston last Saturday and has not been heard from since.